Empire and CommunicationsDundurn, 01.01.2007 - 288 Seiten It’s been said that without Harold A. Innis there could have been no Marshall McLuhan. Empire and Communications is one of Innis’s most important contributions to the debate about how media influence the development of consciousness and societies. In this seminal text, he traces humanity’s movement from the oral tradition of preliterate cultures to the electronic media of recent times. Along the way, he presents his own influential concepts of oral communication, time and space bias, and monopolies of knowledge. |
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... social sciences in Canada. His control of appointments, research funding, publications, and professional associations was further increased as he recommitted himself to university work while many of his peers went into war service. In ...
... social sciences in Canada. His control of appointments, research funding, publications, and professional associations was further increased as he recommitted himself to university work while many of his peers went into war service. In ...
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... social sciences was to develop a grand synthesis akin to the quest to develop a “unified field theory” in post-relativity science. He was attempt- ing to develop and merge a theory of politics or imperialism (drawing largely on the work ...
... social sciences was to develop a grand synthesis akin to the quest to develop a “unified field theory” in post-relativity science. He was attempt- ing to develop and merge a theory of politics or imperialism (drawing largely on the work ...
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Harold A. Innis. the social sciences and provide a means of escape from the limi- tations of contemporary worldviews. Although Innis did not successfully complete this grand synthesis, his work in my opinion does not represent a dead end ...
Harold A. Innis. the social sciences and provide a means of escape from the limi- tations of contemporary worldviews. Although Innis did not successfully complete this grand synthesis, his work in my opinion does not represent a dead end ...
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... Social Thought and Professor F.H. Knight of the University of Chicago. An interest in the general problem was stimulated by the late Professor C.N. Cochrane and the late Professor E.T. Owen. Professor Grant Robertson, Professor W.T. ...
... Social Thought and Professor F.H. Knight of the University of Chicago. An interest in the general problem was stimulated by the late Professor C.N. Cochrane and the late Professor E.T. Owen. Professor Grant Robertson, Professor W.T. ...
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... social structure. Each staple in its turn left its stamp, and the shift to new staples invariably produced periods of crises in which adjustments in the old structure were painfully made and a new pattern created in relation to a new ...
... social structure. Each staple in its turn left its stamp, and the shift to new staples invariably produced periods of crises in which adjustments in the old structure were painfully made and a new pattern created in relation to a new ...
Inhalt
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32 | |
46 | |
The Oral Tradition and Greek Civilization | 75 |
The Written Tradition and the Roman Empire | 106 |
Parchment and Paper | 138 |
Paper and the Printing Press | 164 |
Notes | 199 |
Marginalia | 220 |
Suggested Reading | 270 |
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